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Aye, that seems like a much better method. Will do for the next brew!

I cooled it within a couple of minutes, now I'll just see how it turns out. Thanks for your reassurance, both of you.

I'm doing my first partial mash which calls for a beta rest at 140 F for 30 min and an alpha rest at 158 F for 30 min. The beta rest went fine, but when I turned on the heat a bit to do the alpha rest, is seemed to heat up a little slow. I let it sit for a while and checked it again...

Hmm.. that's a pretty good idea, i'll just boil about a half gallon (or less) with the priming sugar. Thanks!

I checked the gravity the other day, it's at two weeks and still a couple points above the target.

Could this potentially harm the beer in any way? My batch is a bit short of five gallons (about 4 1/2), but I gather that if I add some water the gravity will fall to the target specified in the recipe and make it a bit lighter. Thoughts?

The recipe calls for a FG of 1.010-15.

I thought I had sufficient aeration (poured back and forth about six times), but probably not as good as one of those aeration stones. One thing I did notice was that the yeast appeared to reproduce like crazy. I had about an inch of it on the bottom of the primary, and now have another inch...

I'm still in the experimentation phase, so I'm giving the secondary a try. Once it's off the primary trub however, extra time in the secondary won't hurt?

The gravity before transfer was about 1.020

Hello, I boiled my second batch, an American Pale Ale, about three weeks ago, left it in the primary fermenter for a week and then racked it to a secondary. The primary was pretty active for about three days and then slowed down. Now, nearly two weeks have passed, yet I can still see...